Improved plate



UNITED' STATES PATENT gOrrIcE. f

NEWELL D. srEvENs, or WEsrBEooK, MAINE, AssIGNoE rro IIIMsELE AND O. A. HILL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED PLAT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 95,74 2, dated Octobcr 12, 1869.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,.N. D. STEVENS, of Westbrook, in the county of Cumberland. and State of Maine, have inventeda new and useful Improved Plate; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others to make and use my invention, reference being had Vto the accompanying drawings, forming part of into pieces a plate as ordinarily made, will often disgure and mar it by chipping off the enamel or vitreous glazing on the surface, and thus render it unsightly, and also by the roughness of the surface thus exposed render the plate very difficult of cleansing, LS the inequalities of the chipped or injured places retain the impurities and are' hard to reach,

so as to free them properly of the minute accumulations therein.

My invention is designed to prevent in a I great measure the destruction of such plates by blows or falling, dto.,- by means of which they would be broken in two or into a number of pieces; and my device also serves to protect the plates from such injuries by chipping, &c., as they are frequently exposed to when the force applied is not enough to break them in pieces, but only to mar them more'or less.

-My invention consists in applying to and around the rim 4or flange of a plate a strip or edging of ductile metal- 21s, for instance, silver for the more costly and finer varieties of such utensils, and some less costly metals for the less valuable sorts.` This band or edging I propose to apply to the flange of the plates by spinning onW-a well-known process to metal-workers. ,The strip thus spun on I pro-` pose to make of a width equal or nearlyequal to theywidth of the flange of the plate, so as to nearly or quite cover such flange, .and eX- tending nearly to the beginning of the `deeper or receptacle portion of the plate. On the under side of the iiange the metal band is continued under the entire liange, and occupies nearly the whole extent inward to the body of the plate. (See Fig. 2.)

By the process of spinning on the metal band is applied to the plate with great firmness and closeness, and is not liable to become detached therefrom. The banld thus applied is not only a protection against breakage or damage from falls, blows, Sto., but is also susceptible of being made very ornamental, as Y the metal may be chased, cut, embossed, or embellished in a variety of ways.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a porcelain or other frangible plate with a metal.

band, rim, or clamp spun uponthe Viiange thereof, as hereia described.

NEWELL D. srEvENs. v

- Vitnesses: v

WILLIAM HENRY CLIFFORD, WM. FRANKLIN SEAvEY. 

